Improvement in field-rollers



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G. LINDLEY. Field-Rbller.

Patented May 31, 1 859.

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G. LINDLEY.

Field-Roller;

No. 24,219. Patented May 31, 1859.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEO. LINDLEY, OF'GHIGAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIELD-ROLLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 24,219, dated May 31, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LINDLEY, of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improved field roller for crushing, pulverizing, and packing the soil and furrowing for and coverin g seeds; and [do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in havin g a double corrugated or-tongue-and-groove roller, each part composed of two (2) or more sections working in a frame, with a joint in the frame to adaptthe sections to the undulations of the surface of the soil, the ridges or tongues on the sections to be beveled or sharpened so as toindent or penetrate the soil. The sections of the rear roller are placed at reversedends to those of the front, so that the tongues or ridges of the former will follow after the grooves or cavities of the latter. The roller may be operated on new roads or in fields without turnin g by rolling the headlands in the field first, driving out on them on a curve to the landside, and changing the team to the opposite side of the roller.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct the sections A A, Figure 1,hollow, of cast-iron from one-fourth to threeeighths inch in thickness, the cavities two inches deep, three inches wide at the bottom, and four inches at the top. The tongues or ridges are two inches wide on the face and three inches at the base.

I make each roller in the sections either two and a half or three feet in length. The heads of the sections to hold the axles may be cast in the section or separately and connected by bolts running from one head to the other. The axles for the ends of each roller may be cast in the heads and turn in boxes attached to the frame.

B B represent one side and section of the side of the frame with the elevation to receive the platform, and to which the levers are attached for operating the scrapers used to clean the grooves when filled with mud.

(J 0 represents the two sections of the front, also the rear, of the frame, connected together with the iron bar D D, (side and top view,) which supports the inner ends of the sections of the rollers, making a joint in the center of the front and rear part of the frame.

E is the bar that connects the three levers which operate the outside single scrapers, G G, and the center double scraper, H H. The latter is adjusted to work alternately on the front and rear rollers, the rear becoming the front when returning, without turning about. The. scrapers are made of iron or steel plates to fit the corrugations on the rollers.

F F isa side lever extending three feet above the frame, connected with the bar E, and working on a fulcrum near the topof the frame, and connected at the top of the frame by the pole M with a similar lever and connections on the opposite side of the roller. tor on the platform, by a single motion pressing against the pole M, brings all the scrapers in contact with the obstacles to be removed, and can be changed at pleasure.

' The platform is constructed by bolting two thin pieces of timber together through slats in the end, as represented in I, to the top of the frame on the front and rear part, with boards between extending from front to rear, with strips on the ends outside the pieces of timber. These boards should not be nailed to the timber, but be held by the timbers, leaving sufficient space for the platform to adapt itself to the changed positions of the rollers on an undulating surface.

K is a section of platform; L, the seat, astride of which the driver sits to operate the scrapers.

Fig. 2 represents perspective view.

By removing the rear roller and attaching a broadcast grain-sowersowingthesame widths a smoothly harrowed field can be sown in rows from two to three inches wide and two to four inches apart. Then by replacing the rear roller and crossing the field in an opposite direction the grain will be covered at a uniform depth of from one to one and a half inch, leaving small ridges of earth about one and a half inch high to hold the snow on' the grain, and when it washes orv blows will gather around the roots of the grain. This process of putting in grain will insure a better germination, a slower but a more vigorous growth, and a. larger yield than any heretofore practiced.

The opera- 1 claimvibrate freely under it, substantially as de- The vibrating scrapers, constructed and scribed, when the rollers pass over uneven arranged so that the driver can operate them ground.

to clear the rollers of the earth adhering to l them when the machine is drawn in either di- LINDLEY' rection, substantially as described. Witnesses:

2. Constructing and arranging the plat- GEO. B. HENDEEN,

form so that the ends which support it may S. W. BOWEN. 

